Ok, getting rid of Norton's firewall threat without uninstalling
 

I've started the long, horrible process of trying to connect to gnutella with BS. I've turned off the windows firewall. I've turned off the five firewalls in my Norton. I just got my new laptop not a month ago so I'm using Vista and a fairly new version of Norton. I still can't connect. I tried replacing the "connect" file in the BS dl folder that someone suggested in another thread and it still won't connect.
I'd rather not have to uninstall Norton. Is there some other firewall or other way to get it to work? Are there any other tricks that anybody knows?

Try to disable Norton FireWall while using BearShare. Although, you should wait for more solutions, as this, well at least I think so, should be a last resort.

hmmmm...try right clicking on the BearShare icon and choosing compatability with XP

From where you're at it may be impossible due to traffic shaping or blocking.

No, I could connect with no problems on this same network with my old laptop and old version of BS. It's just this new laptop now that giving me all this trouble. Should I just switch to limewire maybe. Or would that just give me the same problems again?